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  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  me with a group doing a UROP and they accepted me.” That must ... frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I started planning for this year’s summer break last year August, a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... 's team qualified with a decisive victory. It was less than a week later we ... trip we'd been preparing for all season. A plane ride and a time zone

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  I couldn't really do each one justice and because a video of the ... friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear ... for our entire second semester. Sit back, it was a crazy night! I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  ://nymag.com/guides/fallpreview/2007/books/36501/ Hope you're all doing well! mitra   Here's a ... and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a previous entry about Spring 07 classes, I took a short story writing class

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT ... abroad or take internships in a foreign country. I might be getting an ... alone the summer. So it's not a definite, but it's something that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  yet I bring you this bonus blog entry. Do I love you, or do I love you ... class ring was unveiled during a premiere at Walker Memorial, then distributed at a swanky event at Top of the Hub, a very classy restaurant at the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Laura '09 had an interesting bit a while back in her blog about East Campus and West Campus, a distinction that, at least to me, always brings ... dorms (keep in mind there is also a residence hall called East Campus

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  [annotation note="by rule, I do not take pictures of art, so no photos there."]a ... do. This would be a theme of this series, if it were not for the fact ... This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  . It’s a daunting task, as the systems we’re designing are underspecified and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the ... and lots and lots of talking. Most of my classes this semester devote a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  city, and stopped by a bookshop because that’s what I do when I walk ... semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a ... History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a ... suitcase into it, I realized with dismay that its floor was slick with a ... blog post a lot more dubious. Ew."]There were also a couple of food

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  being a "Hunter," someone who basically travels the world doing dangerous ... subtitles. I co-wrote a 200-page self-insert fanfiction about [annotation note="a ... "]Haikyuu!!.[/annotation] Hell, I'm listening to anime openings as I write this... Anime is such a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  astronomy and doing astronomy research, but I’m a little nervous about ... ultimately accumulates. I unfolded a cardboard box, switched on my desk lamp ... bin. What if, in ten years, getting a job hinges on having my notes from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  and the Arts, passing through a 3-midterm, 1-pset, 1-mini-paper week. It’s finally the weekend—a four-day weekend at that—but MIT has another thing ... dreary stew of words I’ll call a story when my alarm goes off. The stupid

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  uniform electric field, but use the Maxwell Stress Tensor and do a spherical ... daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... classes. The first ten weeks or so straddled a slender line between

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically ... valleys and mountaintops alike with a sharp, consuming pink and rivers grow ... elementary school and worked my way through a beautiful collection of nature

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  healthy amount of skepticism; i don’t have time to do a detailed literature ... last semester, aside from doing work for the classes i was enrolled in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  of “101 Things to Do Before You Graduate” a serious attempt. In honor ... I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... , screaming for my mom. Muddy water pounced on my legs with icy strength. A few

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  So. It’s been a while since I last was on the blogs, speed writing about a new experience. During my writing hiatus, over this past summer, I did a thing. And it was a pretty cool thing to be a part of if I do

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  geographers — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can't wait to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023